MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax) - More than 500,000 foreign citizens who had violated Russian laws were barred from visiting Russia in 2013, Federal Migration Service head Konstantin Romodanovsky said.
"The entry is practically closed for 530,000 foreign citizens. Twenty percent [of the bans] are the result of the activity of the Moscow department," he said at a meeting of the Federal Migration Service's Moscow department board on Wednesday.